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Beautiful People Aren’t So Beautiful After the Holidays
Posted by Girls By Design
January 22, 2010
Categories:  Discussion, Uncategorized, What's Crackin'
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You guys have heard of dating sites like eHarmony and Match.com, right? Those nifty little websites have been rising in popularity — thanks to our overwhelming use of the internet. Well then, let me introduce you to another rising star! This one is called Beautiful People and – you guessed it- only accepts members who are beautiful (and by ‘beautiful’ I mean the shallow kind, not the “what’s on the inside is more important” bit).

You see, to become a member is pretty easy. It’s free and simple to register for: put your name, email, birth day and a picture and TA-DA, you’re almost there! All you need now is for the existing members to vote and see whether you are pretty enough to be a member or not, based on your picture. Yup, if you aren’t hot enough, you aren’t a member.

If that wasn’t a problem before, it became one after members started getting banned for gaining weight over the holidays. When the members decided to meet for a date, they looked a little chunkier in person then they did on the picture, so people started to complain and KABLAMO 5,000 people were banned. Too much turkey and mashed potatoes really comes back to haunt you, apparently.

The banned members were of course outraged and even more so when the site allowed them to re-submit a picture once they lost weight to regain their membership. Members and the founder have stated that it’s a sad loss for so many members to be banned, but alas, the site is trying to uphold their mission: To guarantee that your dates will always be beautiful.

Talk about the good, the bad and the ugly, eh? Ok, maybe that was a bad joke…. To read more about the ban you can go here.

So GBD, what do have to say about this? Would you join the site?Yes/No? Why or Why not?

On a side note: When discussing this article with some peeps *cough mainly G cough* the topics of “Only attractive people should date attractive people” came about, along with the stereotyping of “People who are smart aren’t smokin’ and the people who are smokin’ are as mentally adept as a lamp post”. Why do you think this stereotype exists? What are your thoughts on all of this about “Hot or Not” people and couples?

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Mia Jane

January 22, 2010

“in the end days, the evil will come in innocence and beauty”… hahaha… i’ll stay where the community is a community without discrimination.. where everybody is just happy for who and what they are… welcome to GBD


G

January 22, 2010

Binks, “It’s so unfair! If I’m smart, I’m ugly and if I’m not intelligent, I’m not smart!” Remember that? Hahaha. “I guess we know which category G is in.”


Binks

January 22, 2010

hahahahha I know that was funny dude


G

January 22, 2010

I’d wear a blonde wig, but I just don’t think the colour would look good on me hahah.

I don’t have to answer those questions, you already know my views. :P


Marilyne

January 23, 2010

My thoughts are: if these people have the same view about beauty, then may they stay there and leave the beautiful people in the inside to the other sites so you know where to find them hehe natural filter hehe ;)


anjudanr

January 23, 2010

I definitely won’t join because they will reject me anyway! No, but seriously I agree with Mia Jane. I love to be among people who accept other people for who they are regardless of differences.

But apparently there are “beautiful people” who seek other “beautiful people” out there and this site works for them I guess… Wonder how many members they have… :O


Jenipher

January 23, 2010

Well, to begin with I wouldn’t even think on joining a site to meet people because it can be simpler than that. All around us there are many many people we can meet, get to know, date and what not…while we have all this around us, why should we then resort to joining these sites? I mean, they tell you one thing on the internet and what if they’re lying! (Sure, they can be lying in person but it’s way better if you meet people that you physically see rather than finding a date over the internet).

About stereotyping…don’t get me started! I have very complex issues because I don’t believe in stereotyping. Won’t get to the details haha too extensive.

I’ll finish this by saying that we should all seek for inner beauty rather than outer because it’s the inner which counts (and I’m not just saying that, I live by this!).


rainbaby24

January 24, 2010

Even if some of us did fit the “standards” it’s so not worth doing. that’s a horrible idea to press on to people. that they’re not good enough, or not pretty enough. Who are other people to judge that? It seems like a website for self absorbed people looking for people like themselves.It may seem like a fun idea but I think it’s just silly. Meet people the normal way, judge them from the inside, go from there. :) ~Cassie


DeannaRochelle

January 24, 2010

On a physical level, it’s kind of sad that “beauty” is synonymous “thin.” There are sooo many other attributes, to me, that make a person beautiful on the outside.

I agree with Jenipher that there are people around us every day that we could potentially be friends with. I also agree that inner beauty is much more important in so many other ways than outer beauty.(e.g. some people are really mean to others because they think so highly of themselves)

Stereotyping probably came about because people wanted to have a sense of belonging, because stereotyping usually occurs in the company of others (in my experience).


Mia Jane

January 25, 2010

@anjudanr – have you read the whole article about it? this is what i also found out: most of those who were kicked out are from countries and continents that have cold climates that ate a little bit more during the Christmas season… hey! it’s cool to eat and drink with family and friends around… and those who are still in are from tropical countries. i think i know someone… hhhmmmm…
thank you Christina Aguilera for this song:
“i am beautiful, no matter what they say”
words can’t bring me down… hihihi